No one can builu her security upon the nobleness of another person.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

The end is nothing; the road is all.

Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.

Never be in a hurry to terminate a marriage. Remember, you may need this man/woman to finish a sentence.

The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.

A wave isn't like a skate ramp or mountain; everything's moving around, and you have to time how to move along with it. That's easier with a slow wave.

[Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful.

To be honest, I miss the old Hollywood way of having some mystique about the star.

Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.

We have a person that wants to balance the budget by charging $1,000 to every family who spanks their child.

We are buried beneath the weight of information.